Despite offering several promising concepts, the Language/Action Perspective (LAP) is still not in the mainstream of Information Systems Development (ISD). Since at present there is only a limited understanding of LAP theory and practice, it remains unclear whether the lack of LAP’s impact is due to shortcomings in LAP theory itself. One classic problem within ISD is the dichotomy between socia...

This study examines ideas of pre-service teachers on goals of biology practical in three purposely selected Colleges of Education. To this end, A researcher designed questionnaire which was adapted titled ‘views of preservice teachers on biology practical’ to elicit information, and findings of a survey administered to 405 preservice teachers revealed divergent views with gender stereotypes on ...

In 2009, the Dutch government launched the Wikiwijs project to increase the use, development and sharing of digital learning materials. Wikiwijs mainly offers Open Educational Resources (OER) through a freely accessible website. Although not all resources are freely available, most of Wikiwijs’s learning materials are published under an open licence. Even though part of the educational resource...

The purpose of this study is to explore the complex nature of Singapore teachers’ beliefs about knowledge and learning and how these beliefs influence pedagogical practices in their classes. This paper presents findings from a large-scale survey study with 1806 teachers in Singapore. Data revealed that while teachers’ beliefs about pedagogies, knowledge and learning were largely consistent, the...

This case study investigated how five novice teachers of French went about implementing tasks. In particular, the investigation aimed at finding out about implementational demands that imposed challenges for the teachers and how they coped with these challenges. The study also looked at the complementary relationship between implementational demands and task design factors and how these impact ...

State Machine, ASM for short, is a powerfulcomputational model [34], which has been successfullyapplied in several cases for modeling critical, complexsystems, both in industry and in academia: widediscussion about ASM application is in [7]. It simulatesevery algorithm’s behavior through a step-by-step way:each step computes a set of updates with given transitionrule...

The variety of didactic methods and approaches to teaching, which can stimulate and unlock learning potential, is recognised as influence of pluralist teaching. Pluralism in teaching is determined by various methods which can improve the quality of learning and make teaching more active, interesting, of high-quality and complete. The authors of this paper wanted to examine which teaching strate...